Virginia Ann Twell

Virginia Ann Horner Twell October 8, 1938 - October 23, 2021 was born in Kansas City, Virginia was the eldest of three children raised in a fun loving home that treasured family, Irish heritage, music, society and education. They were very close and spent much time with their grandparents on their farms in Studley and Hoxie Kansas. A graduate of Rosedale High School, she played the violin, the piano and was a member of the Pep Squad, Camp Fire Girls and St. George’s Episcopal Church.

Starting her college years, Virginia worked as a carhop at Winsteads in Kansas City, a secretary at

Pinkertons Agency and an assistant to the local doctor in Hoxie, Kansas before becoming a mother and

homemaker.

Virginia began married life with Foster Twell on the family farm in Western Kansas followed by a move to

Texas with her husband in search of oil in his career with Sunoco Oil Company. They moved all over

Texas from Midland, Corpus Christi, Houston and finally settled in Plano since 1970.

Virginia devoted her life to loving her husband and raising her two children, four grandchildren and 1 great

grandchild. Her family was her pride, past and present. She gave to them everything she had; much like

The Giving Tree in the famed children’s book.

Virginia is survived by her two children, Charles Twell of Plano and Catherine Boatman of McKinney and

her son-in-law, Alan Boatman. Also survived by 4 grandchildren, Melanie Siracusa of Plano, Chelsea Twell of Plano, Audrey Boatman of Frisco and Alec Boatman of Princeton with his wife, Lauren Boatman.

She had 1 great grandchild, Aiden Siracusa.

Virginia is preceded in death by her husband Charles Foster Twell of Hoxie, Kansas and Plano, Texas.

Also by her parents, McPherson Archer Horner and Hellen Rawson Horner, her grandparents, William

“Boppa” Rawson and Laura Lynam Rawson, Eugene Weston Horner and Lily Archer Horner all of

Western Kansas.

“Grammy” as she was known, was a fun-loving, happy, hard working and giving person. She loved

making friends with all her neighbors and hearing about other people’s lives.

After her grandchildren were school age, she enjoyed working. She had a local paper route for many

years where her grandchildren and their friends would ride along at 2am and have many fond memories

of being with her. She was the catalyst for about every activity her grandchildren participated in:

gymnastics, dance, soccer, cheerleading, drama and karate. Never missed a thing they were in. She

made sure they all knew they were loved and that they knew they were of strong “Pioneer Stock”, passing

on the pride of our ancestors from Ireland and England.

In her later years she loved her job as a Walmart greeter where she could make as many new friends a

day as she wanted. She would occasionally fall asleep on the bench but no one would say anything to

her. She was thought of as an “honorary employee” and all the visitors would know her name, look for

her, buy her gift cards at the holidays and ask about her if she wasn’t there.

She will be greatly missed but we know she is in Heaven with Foster and her beloved family